Truly abolishing the electoral college would require a significant number of deeply red states to willingly hand over all their political power to Califoregon, Illisota, and Yorkachussets. They'll never pull that off, and they know it.
Instead, they're trying to do an end-run around the Constitution by pushing for making individual states' electoral votes determined by nationwide popular ballot totals instead of vote counts only in that state.
This is why it is just as important NOT to elect leftists for state government. They have this plan to abolish the electoral college without ever even touching it.